pathology labs already have a list of reportable diseases that the CDC monitor (you know, their job).
why would anyone rely on reports from the media on what outbreaks are going around when you have trained professionals with lab equipment diagnosing these illnesses to begin with?
"No questions asked and no they don't get a choice"
there is a huge gaping hole in this kind of arguement. it softens them up to future government opression, since mum and dad lojacked me whats wrong with the government doing it, right?
living in your kids back pockets is a sure fire way to have them rebeling against you by the time they are 13. and yes, lojacking the frigging car is going too far.
visionary he is not. good at taking idea's and refining them - yes.
none of apples products were industry firsts, NONE of them. the mp3 player, smart phone, slimeline laptop, even OSX's features - all of them existed well before apple jumped on the bandwagon. apple is at it's core a marketing machine, nothing more.
"He has listed himself as "co-inventor" on 103 separate Apple patents"
"He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums."
he sounds like an asshole to work for, i don't care how hip or "in" some circles consider their products. combine this with the fact apple engineers are lower paid than their counter parts at google and MS, and it looks like you have to either have rocks in your head to work their or be a memeber of the apple cult.
that's utter rubbish to compare the lower number of women in science to the racial discrimination of the old days.
for a start, no one is proposing women should be kept out of these jobs. what they are in fact proposing is that sexual discrimination against men is ok. if it's a cultural "weakness" in america that causes women to avoid science, then spend money getting them interested in highschool and even earlier. don't deny anyone based on gender, it's wrong no matter what spin you try put on it.
5 years ago most of them had ssh on by default (we ARE trying to compare apples and apples right? none of this i can configure linux but lets leave XP wide open), they also had gems like bind8 or bind4 on by default as well as sendmail.
right let's install a 5 year old linux distro and see how long it takes to get owned. it's the same thing they are putting forward here with an unpatch winXP system.
unpatch systems with no protection are easy to infect - this is not news.
wrong. the whole CO2 warms the planet nonsense started from a paper written by a britsh climatologist (the name escapes me right now), in which he proposed we could fight the comming ice age by pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the air. he was laughed at an dismissed, ironicly. this was later combined with the findings of rising CO2 levels and put forth as a hypothesis. of course the eco crusaders soon ceased on this as fact and thats how we got where we are today. nothing about man made CO2, of which accounts for 2.8% of the total CO2 in the air, is proven to cause rising temps. I challenge you to show me actual proof that's more than "this graph seems to be trending the same as this other graph, therefore it MUST be the CO2"
1. i have a friend who started out as the pizza topping kid at a pizza hut. he is now the regional manager and is on an awesome salary with a car and phone. so yes it IS possible to move forward in hospitality. as i was saying it's all about attitude.
2. maybe 100 years ago coal mniers died from black lung. not anymore - and i grew up in a coal mining town.
3. yes it's easy to "prove" anything if you come up with imaginary scenario's. i've never met anyone in real life who has had that kind of outsourcing debarcle happen to them, which makes me think it's a bit of a myth or atleast very rare.
"It also does not work if all the "100000 jobs" are "race to the bottom" "employment opportunities" where the chief contest is who can do the most demeaning, self-destructive thing for the least amount of money, far below any poverty-level "standard" of living "
you see i just think that's nonsense. it's the same kind of crap walmart haters spew out. just because your job isn't very glamorous and you didn't start out as the VP of the company, that doesn't make a job self destructive or demeaning. a large part of the problem isn't with employers, it's peoples attitudes.
I started out in shit kicker helpdesk jobs which paid only slightly more than welfare, almost 10 years later and a lot of hardwork i'm now in a highly sort after technical role making about 10x what i started on. and guess what? those 10 years weren't optional, that's just how long it takes to build the experience and skills high paying jobs need.
the company i work for is a non union shop owned by a large international, so by your measure they should be raping and pilaging me. but they aren't, in fact it's the oppersite, they really do look after me.
they aren't the kind that won't take a job because it's not what their degree is in, or not good enough for them are they? i know a few well educated people who have that attitude and frankly it makes them almost unemployable.
from the accounts i've read america has a shortage of skilled workers, unless there is a huge conspiracy out there keeping the rest of the world in the dark i tend to believe it.
i agree with you that you should have the right not to be discrimnated against based on religion,sex or race. any company that did so is mad because the only thing that should matter is your ability to do the job, and given the labour shortages we have company's can't afford to.
BUT i don't think employment should be elevated to a human right. doing so only dilutes the term and makes real human rights seem less legitimate.
and here is why it's not a human right - someone employing you isn't something you need to survive, you can easily go work for yourself if you don't like what's being offered, or you can move onto the next 100000 jobs out there.
far too many issues get taken up as a rights crusade.
i think you misunderstand what i was getting at - what did it cost to get the craft up there? if you choose to keep operating after it's inital objectives are complete that's going to be outside what's budgeted for the program. hence you don't NEED to blow billions just to complete a single mission when for a mere 1.5billion these old probes have completed MANY missions.
to put this in perspective it costs 1.3 billion PER MISSION for the shuttles, and it's predicted the shuttle program will have cost 173 billion when it wraps up in 2010.
http://www.space.com/news/shuttle_cost_050211.html
You don't need billion dollar budget programs to achieve amazing science, low cost well thought out missions can do great things. maybe it's the thinking part that has them stumped.
a "good" non-compete should only limit you to competing directly with your old employer or working for one of their direct competitors for a very limited amount of time.
IANAL but i can't see how anyone thinks blanket clauses like "you won't work for anyone for 12 months" could cut the mustard in court without them paying you the whole time.
"and I am proud to say I took a lot of business from them"
.... and people who do this are the very reason businesses use them. think about it, if you ran a business which had X number of clients who used you for some specialised service how exactly do you protect your business if your own employee's try stealing them along with the idea's they learnt while at the company?
this was the essence of the non-compete i signed, that i wouldn't run off and start my own business in competeition with my current employer, using their own business methods against them.
an NDA just doesn't cut it for this, because i'm not technically disclosing anything to anyone. NDA's are only to stop you telling the world someone elses secrets.
The bottom line is most contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on, and that we ALL sign stinker contracts (check out your mobile phone contract....), but those contracts which aren't fair will lose ultimately. IANAL , but i did get legal advice before i signed the above contract and my lawyer said it was fine. i think getting legal advice is also important if you think something isn't right or your making a big commitment.
You are looking at non-compete's in the wrong light. the reason for the non-compete is so that the company doesn't have to compete against it's own employee's. while i agree some douche bag company's try and misuse it, their are valid uses for it.
unless your in upper management i don't see a non-compete being useful for a software programmer. i signed one once as a contractor when i was working on a highly specialised bit of software, it contained lots of business logic and proccess knowledge that the company didn't want me running away with (and rightly so). It didn't affect me in the slightest though i'd never choose to work in that industry ever again.
have you ever actually tried to claim on missing or defective products though? precious few have anything positive to say about it, with paypal it's a case of it's great until you have a problem then you see it for what it is - a glorified CC company who screws everyone.
a friend of mine had all the money she was paid for a web design pulled from her account because the customer complained to paypal that he hadn't recieved the service requested. she had no recourse even though the customer was (and still is) using the designs on their website.
and no i can't give out the website address because she won't tell me (she knows i'd do something like post it on/. muahaha)
Slashdot Mirror
.... i bet they will be so glad to get out
most people know an apple aluminum keyboard is a fucking waste of money
You get to make absurd statements all day and get press coverage for it. sounds like a fun job
why would anyone rely on reports from the media on what outbreaks are going around when you have trained professionals with lab equipment diagnosing these illnesses to begin with?
there is a huge gaping hole in this kind of arguement. it softens them up to future government opression, since mum and dad lojacked me whats wrong with the government doing it, right?
living in your kids back pockets is a sure fire way to have them rebeling against you by the time they are 13. and yes, lojacking the frigging car is going too far.
none of apples products were industry firsts, NONE of them. the mp3 player, smart phone, slimeline laptop, even OSX's features - all of them existed well before apple jumped on the bandwagon. apple is at it's core a marketing machine, nothing more.
"He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums."
he sounds like an asshole to work for, i don't care how hip or "in" some circles consider their products. combine this with the fact apple engineers are lower paid than their counter parts at google and MS, and it looks like you have to either have rocks in your head to work their or be a memeber of the apple cult.
for a start, no one is proposing women should be kept out of these jobs. what they are in fact proposing is that sexual discrimination against men is ok. if it's a cultural "weakness" in america that causes women to avoid science, then spend money getting them interested in highschool and even earlier. don't deny anyone based on gender, it's wrong no matter what spin you try put on it.
5 years ago most of them had ssh on by default (we ARE trying to compare apples and apples right? none of this i can configure linux but lets leave XP wide open), they also had gems like bind8 or bind4 on by default as well as sendmail.
unpatch systems with no protection are easy to infect - this is not news.
really so my dyslexia invalidates all my points does it?
wrong. the whole CO2 warms the planet nonsense started from a paper written by a britsh climatologist (the name escapes me right now), in which he proposed we could fight the comming ice age by pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the air. he was laughed at an dismissed, ironicly. this was later combined with the findings of rising CO2 levels and put forth as a hypothesis. of course the eco crusaders soon ceased on this as fact and thats how we got where we are today. nothing about man made CO2, of which accounts for 2.8% of the total CO2 in the air, is proven to cause rising temps. I challenge you to show me actual proof that's more than "this graph seems to be trending the same as this other graph, therefore it MUST be the CO2"
2. maybe 100 years ago coal mniers died from black lung. not anymore - and i grew up in a coal mining town.
3. yes it's easy to "prove" anything if you come up with imaginary scenario's. i've never met anyone in real life who has had that kind of outsourcing debarcle happen to them, which makes me think it's a bit of a myth or atleast very rare.
you see i just think that's nonsense. it's the same kind of crap walmart haters spew out. just because your job isn't very glamorous and you didn't start out as the VP of the company, that doesn't make a job self destructive or demeaning. a large part of the problem isn't with employers, it's peoples attitudes.
I started out in shit kicker helpdesk jobs which paid only slightly more than welfare, almost 10 years later and a lot of hardwork i'm now in a highly sort after technical role making about 10x what i started on. and guess what? those 10 years weren't optional, that's just how long it takes to build the experience and skills high paying jobs need.
the company i work for is a non union shop owned by a large international, so by your measure they should be raping and pilaging me. but they aren't, in fact it's the oppersite, they really do look after me.
from the accounts i've read america has a shortage of skilled workers, unless there is a huge conspiracy out there keeping the rest of the world in the dark i tend to believe it.
BUT i don't think employment should be elevated to a human right. doing so only dilutes the term and makes real human rights seem less legitimate.
and here is why it's not a human right - someone employing you isn't something you need to survive, you can easily go work for yourself if you don't like what's being offered, or you can move onto the next 100000 jobs out there.
far too many issues get taken up as a rights crusade.
what does this have to do with human rights? do you think you have a right to work at Neilsen's or something?
to put this in perspective it costs 1.3 billion PER MISSION for the shuttles, and it's predicted the shuttle program will have cost 173 billion when it wraps up in 2010. http://www.space.com/news/shuttle_cost_050211.html
that's bargin basement space exploration. it's the perfect example, thank you very much.
You don't need billion dollar budget programs to achieve amazing science, low cost well thought out missions can do great things. maybe it's the thinking part that has them stumped.
IANAL but i can't see how anyone thinks blanket clauses like "you won't work for anyone for 12 months" could cut the mustard in court without them paying you the whole time.
this was the essence of the non-compete i signed, that i wouldn't run off and start my own business in competeition with my current employer, using their own business methods against them.
an NDA just doesn't cut it for this, because i'm not technically disclosing anything to anyone. NDA's are only to stop you telling the world someone elses secrets.
The bottom line is most contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on, and that we ALL sign stinker contracts (check out your mobile phone contract....), but those contracts which aren't fair will lose ultimately. IANAL , but i did get legal advice before i signed the above contract and my lawyer said it was fine. i think getting legal advice is also important if you think something isn't right or your making a big commitment.
unless your in upper management i don't see a non-compete being useful for a software programmer. i signed one once as a contractor when i was working on a highly specialised bit of software, it contained lots of business logic and proccess knowledge that the company didn't want me running away with (and rightly so). It didn't affect me in the slightest though i'd never choose to work in that industry ever again.
have you ever actually tried to claim on missing or defective products though? precious few have anything positive to say about it, with paypal it's a case of it's great until you have a problem then you see it for what it is - a glorified CC company who screws everyone.
and no i can't give out the website address because she won't tell me (she knows i'd do something like post it on /. muahaha)